{"id":4530,"date":"2024-01-11T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2024-01-11T18:10:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T23:10:01","slug":"a-poem-for-a-thursday-251","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/11\/a-poem-for-a-thursday-251\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for a Thursday #251"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/elihu-gideon-CFsq-_GNup4-unsplash-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4531\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@elihugideon?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Elihu Gideon<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/brown-and-white-owl-on-brown-tree-branch-CFsq-_GNup4?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Denise Levertov was British-born and came to the USA when she married. She wrote &#8220;deceptively matter-of-fact verse.&#8221; She and her husband were political and anti-war activists. Levertov taught at the University of Massachusetts, Tufts University, Brandeis, and Stanford University. She published more than thirty books. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Almost too late to walk in the\nwoods, but I did,\nanyway. And stepping aside for a \nmoment\nfrom the shadowy path to enter\ndarker shadow, a favorite circle\nof fir trees,\nreceived a gift from the dusk:\na small owl, not affrighted,\nmerely\nmoving deliberately\nto a branch a few feet\nfurther from me, looked\nfull at me\u2014a long regard,\nsteady, acknowledging,\nunbiased.\n\nCreature to Creature\nDenise Levertov<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denise Levertov was British-born and came to the USA when she married. She wrote &#8220;deceptively matter-of-fact verse.&#8221; She and her husband were political and anti-war activists. Levertov taught at the University of Massachusetts, Tufts University, Brandeis, and Stanford University. She published more than thirty books. Almost too late to walk in the woods, but I did, anyway. And stepping aside for a moment from the shadowy path to enter darker shadow, a favorite circle of fir trees, received a gift from the dusk: a small owl, not affrighted, merely moving deliberately to a branch a few feet further from me, looked full at me\u2014a long regard, steady, acknowledging, unbiased. Creature to Creature Denise Levertov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem-for-a-thursday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4532,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions\/4532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}